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Sample of authors
Rendell, Ruth
The British crime writer Ruth Rendell was born in London as Ruth Barbara Graseman. Her mother was of Scandinavian origin and her father a former shipyard worker in Plymouth who was able to train as a technology and mathematics teacher as an adult. Ruth Rendell attended the County High School for Girls in Loughton, Essex. She was a feature writer and deputy editor at a number of local newspapers...
Literary figures
Henry Arnold
Gender: Male
Patient, pipe-smoking Scotland Yard detective inspector who solves a whole row of cases in detective stories by Miles Burton (pseudonym for Cecil Street). He has an everyday appearance, and little is known about his private life. Henry Arnold often investigates the same cases as private detective Desmond Merrion, and usually they work together. They are generally of completely different...